The Incredible Story Of The Tongan Castaways, The Teenage Boys Who Survived For 15 Months On An Uninhabited Island
All That's Interesting | 06.03.2026 09:00
In 1965, a group of bored teenage boys snuck out of their boarding school in Tonga, hoping to sail all the way to Fiji or even New Zealand. Instead, a storm blew them hundreds of miles south to a deserted island. The boys seemed doomed. But, incredibly, the so-called Tongan castaways would survive on the remote island for next 15 months before their rescue.
